welfare state

3 min read 2022-06-21 00:39:52

'Entitlement' Is Not A Dirty Word

There's a "Doctor Who" episode, in the first series of the revival, that takes place during World War II. And "no spoilers" for

3 min read 2022-03-04 05:39:03

President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address included the expected (a rebuke of Russian President Vladimir Putin) and the unexpected (a failure

1 min read 2022-02-09 09:47:34

Robert Stark talks to French author Guillaume Durocher about the 2022 French Presidential Election and the campaign of Éric Zemmour. Other topics

1 min read 2021-11-25 18:00:00

Most of the discussion about the reconciliation bill proposed by the Biden administration concerns the amount of its spending—the so-called

1 min read 2021-11-20 00:15:07

First we got Biden’s $1.9 trillion so-called stimulus. Then we got his $1 trillion-plus infrastructure boondoggle. Now Congress may be on the verge

1 min read 2021-11-17 01:44:06

I regularly cite data about Europe’s sub-par economic outcomes in hopes of driving home the point that the United States should not copy that

1 min read 2021-11-10 23:07:08

Biden’s budget plan is based on fraudulent numbers, but it is also based on the fraudulent idea that a big, European-style welfare state can be

1 min read 2021-11-09 04:20:01

Back in 2017, I shared my Second Theorem of Government to warn why it is so important to resist new government giveaway programs. And I used

1 min read 2021-10-30 20:41:44

During his 2012 reelection campaign, Barack Obama created a fictional character named Julia and showed how she could mooch off taxpayers from cradle

1 min read 2021-10-27 22:39:47

I don’t know whether to be amused or frustrated, but I can’t help but notice that folks on the left frequently argue that the United States needs

1 min read 2021-10-18 21:09:00

Even patriotic Brits know that their hero Winston Churchill did not win World War 2 or fly a Spitfire. What they, and others, may not know is

1 min read 2021-10-17 22:56:29

Some of my left-leaning friends (as well as some non-friends) think Nordic nations such as Sweden are shining examples of successful

1 min read 2021-10-13 01:34:22

Prompted by my recent visit to Finland, I listened to a lecture about the country’s challenges in the new world economy. It was delivered by the

1 min read 2021-10-13 01:17:29

I freely admit that I don’t like President Biden’s fiscal agenda in part because of my libertarianism. Simply stated, I’m instinctively

1 min read 2021-10-09 14:32:00

Family of four needs $6,426 a month for basic standard of living in Singapore: Minimum Income Standards Study 2021By Tham Yuen-C, Senior Political